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    The footpad of the lander Phoenix showing its imprint on Mars, shortly after it touched down in the Martian polar region on May 25, 2008. Scientists on the ground wanted to check the stability of the lander before it started its mission.

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The unmanned NASA probe Phoenix landed on Mars on May 25, 2008, to begin a three month exploration of the Martian North Pole. These are some of the first pictures of the Polar region from the surface, sent by the lander with hours of a near perfect landing. The mission will be finished before Fall arrives in Earth because the oncoming Martian winter will put the pole into a deep freeze, covering the Phoenix in a blanket of carbon dioxide ice.
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